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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning battle stations as if it were fighting for its life. In a sense it may be, for the eventual resolution of this bitter dispute could determine not only what the U.S. Navy will look like as the nation steams into the 21st century, but whether there will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...this case, the man made the course and we would not presume to replace him," John H. Harvey, assistant director of General Education, said yesterday...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Beer's Soc Sci 2 Comes to a Close With Last Lecture | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...with $150 million for 1978 anyway, almost twice as much as had been voted, then vetoed. An override hadn't even been necessary. Breeder-backers Sens. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) easily subverted the veto--and got extra appropriations to boot--by securing a General Accounting Office (GAO) report saying Carter's termination of Clinch River was "substantially inconsistent" with the project's original long-term authorization. In other words, as Sen. James McClure (R-Idaho) put it: the Clinch River appropriation is "in effect, self-authorizing;" it needed to be killed with a specific bill...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Breeder Politics | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that she thinks cataracts are just the General Motors version of Lincoln Continentals...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...Postal Service Plans for Electronic Message Services [EMS]--John J. Wise, assistant Postmaster General, and Edward E. Horgan, executive assistant to the Postmaster General, Aiken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Calendar Listings: May 4-May 10 | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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